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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 09:18:40 +0100
From: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>
Cc: ghackmann@...gle.com, mka@...gle.com, kees@...gle.com,
srhines@...gle.com, Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: xen: remove the use of VLAIS
On 24/12/17 19:02, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Variable Length Arrays In Structs (VLAIS) is not supported by Clang, and
> frowned upon by others.
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/23/500
>
> Here, the VLAIS was used because the size of the bitmap returned from
> xen_mc_entry() depended on possibly (based on kernel configuration)
> runtime sized data. Rather than declaring args as a VLAIS then calling
> sizeof on *args, we can define the variable length array (mask) to be a
> pointer, and calculate the appropriate sizeof args manually. Further, we
> can get rid of the #ifdef's and rely on num_possible_cpus() (thanks to a
> helpful checkpatch warning from an earlier version of this patch).
Using a pointer for mask seems to be wrong, as it is never initialized.
Why don't you just use:
DECLARE_BITMAP(mask, NR_CPUS);
and drop the #ifdef, while keeping the manual length calculation?
Juergen
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c | 10 ++++------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
> index 4d62c07..966976c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c
> @@ -1325,20 +1325,18 @@ static void xen_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpus,
> {
> struct {
> struct mmuext_op op;
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> - DECLARE_BITMAP(mask, num_processors);
> -#else
> - DECLARE_BITMAP(mask, NR_CPUS);
> -#endif
> + unsigned long *mask;
> } *args;
> struct multicall_space mcs;
> + const size_t mc_entry_size = sizeof(args->op) +
> + sizeof(*args->mask) * BITS_TO_LONGS(num_possible_cpus());
>
> trace_xen_mmu_flush_tlb_others(cpus, info->mm, info->start, info->end);
>
> if (cpumask_empty(cpus))
> return; /* nothing to do */
>
> - mcs = xen_mc_entry(sizeof(*args));
> + mcs = xen_mc_entry(mc_entry_size);
> args = mcs.args;
> args->op.arg2.vcpumask = to_cpumask(args->mask);
>
>
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